Aaron Doyle

Critical and public criminology, especially focusing on jails and prisons, and on relations between media, culture and criminal justice; risk, insurance, security, and governance; surveillance studies, especially camera surveillance; social movements and protest.

About

Aaron Doyle was born in London, England and grew up in New Zealand and in Victoria, British Columbia. Prior to entering graduate school, he worked as a journalist for five years. He has a B.A. from the University of Victoria, an M.A. in Criminology from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of British Columbia. From 2000-2002, he held a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. He joined our department in 2002.

Recent Publications:

Books

Kevin Haggerty and Aaron Doyle (2015) 57 Ways to Screw Up in Grad School: Perverse Professional Lessons for Graduate Students. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

2007 Aaron Doyle, “Introduction: Trust, Citizenship and Exclusion in the Risk Society”. In Law Commission of Canada eds. Risk and Trust: Including or Excluding Citizens. Halifax: Fernwood. pp 7-22.

2006 Aaron Doyle. “How Not To Think About Crime in the Media” Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 48 (6): 867-886.

2006 Richard Ericson and Aaron Doyle. “The Institutionalization of Deceptive Sales in Life Insurance: Five Sources of Moral Risk”. British Journal of Criminology 46 (6): 993-1010.

2006 Aaron Doyle, “An Alternative Current in Surveillance and Control: Broadcasting Surveillance Footage of Crimes”. In K. Haggerty and R. Ericson eds. The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp 199-224.

2006 Laura Huey, Kevin Walby and Aaron Doyle “Cop Watching in the Downtown Eastside: Exploring the Use of (Counter) Surveillance as a Tool of Resistance”. In Torin Monahan ed. Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life. London: Routledge. P. 149-165.